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July 07, 2009

From High-Tech To Textiles

Stephen Fraser is breaking the mold. The U.S. textile industry has crumbled, but he’s just started a successful textile business. Many new businesses are internet-based, but Stephen has moved from an online job to owning a factory. He talks with Dick about how his business is going.

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People in Greensboro, N.C. could tell early on it was going to be a hard winter for the city's homeless population. Alice Bolton heard about that and began to wonder - why couldn't she put some of those people up in her church?

Mortgage fraud is at an all-time high. According to the F.B.I., cases of mortgage fraud have nearly doubled in the past 3 years. The Brown family were victims of a mortgage scam. When Bridget and Bruce put their home up for sale, a con artist answered the ad. They did a background check, but it didn't matter. After they closed the deal, his checks started bouncing. Later in the program, Dick talks to Jerome Mayne. Jerome says he never thought he'd get in trouble for processing questionable documents that the realtor gave him about a potential buyer.

As investigators try to determine what happened to the nineteen firefighters who died near Yarnell, Arizona, we remember the Mann Gulch canyon wall fire of 1949. Smokejumper Bob Sallee is now the lone survivor of that fire, which burned 4,500 acres in Montana.

Millions will flock to New York City this holiday season to enjoy the Radio City Rockettes perform their classic holiday show. It's a New York tradition, one Tina Vaughn knows well. She got to live out the dream of dozens of young girls who want to grace the Radio City stage as a real Rockette dancer. Also in the show: A parent navigates the logistics of gift giving.

What Nathaniel Cutler wanted most when he got out of law school was to be in the court room. So he accepted a job that would give him plenty of experience with that, as a creditor's rights attorney. It didn’t take Nathan long to realize that meant he’d be the guy in the court room representing the big mortgage company when homeowners showed up for their foreclosure hearings.

Mel Miskimen has been listening to our series about summer jobs and how they can change us. Mel just knew she had to tell us about her job as a "toe checker" at the local pool after graduating from high school.

Everyone now seems to be plugged into a social network on the web: MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn. Jim Sollisch never wanted any part of electronic schmoozing, but he got tricked into joining LinkedIn by a friend.

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History

Sixty years ago this summer, a fire occurred that redefined modern forest fire fighting. Bob Sallee was just 17 years old when he joined the smokejumpers, an elite new group of forest fire fighters. On his very first jump he parachuted down to battle the Mann Gulch blaze outside of Helena, Mont. The blaze seemed routine at first - but fueled by high winds the fire suddenly blew up, it took on new life and jumped the gulch that had separated the smokejumpers from it.